Have you tried the HP site for any possible firmware drivers? Or the drive
mfg them selves.

"Paul" wrote in message
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> FYI:
>
> I've had trouble burning to the built-in DVD drive in the dv8000t for
> months. I was sure it was the drive hardware, and HP support would only
> help me if I reinstalled the OS from their original image (with the all
> the crap-ware). I refused and just gave up on burning with this machine.
> Finally it ocurred to me to try something other than the sonic mydvd 7
> shipped with the notebook. I download a free burner from sweden or
> someplace and the drive works perfectly for burning. There are no updates
> from sonic to fix this, it can't detect the drive even is in the system. I
> also installed roxio ez cd 6 and it didn't see the drive either. So try
> other burning software if you are having problems.
>
>